Ebay just sent me a scam email

[DarrenSV650S]

I just got this email from ebay. Well obviously its not from ebay, but it comes from this address: member@eBay.co.uk
I haven't been selling any TV:rolleyes: and ebay emails always have my name in them. This one doesn't. Also the links in the email don't go to the address' they should. Hotmail hasn't said the email is dodgy or anything, it came through as if it was a known sender

The link goes to this address:
http://virspub.ca/cstrike/ebay/eBayISAPI.dll.htmI haven't clicked any of the links or anything. What should I do?

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k164/DarrenStewartTait/ebay.jpg

[maviczap]

Just delete it and report it to Ebay, just in case someone has bid on it. Check the item number on EBAY.

Similar thing happened to me & my mate.

Its probably a Nigerian or similar scam to get your password details

[DarrenSV650S]

The item doesn't exist. I just forwarded the email to ebay.

[Dangerous Dave]

Forward the message to Ebay explaining what you have just explained to us, stops it spreading to other Ebay members.

Have a look at this (http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/confidence/questions/email-authenticity.html) from the Ebay help section regarding unofficial emails.

[DarrenSV650S]

Ebay has just replied confirming it is a spoof and to just delete. It's weird that it came from a real ebay email address though. They must hack in to ebay's email or something:confused: Worrying

[maviczap]

Have you got spyware removing software & is your antivirus upto date?

My mate had mega problems after clicking on a spoof email. He had no antivirus or spyware software.

He purchased a spoof poroduct, after being prompted by this email, which then infected his PC, and then wouldn't allow him to visit any sites to download antivirus software.

Well, I say he, it was another work colleague who came to his rescue, who found that he could only visit normal websites. Took him all day to get the PC running straight again. :smt072

[DarrenSV650S]

I've got AVG Free, Spyware Guard, Win Patrol, Spyware Blaster and vista's firewall and defender are turned on.
I'm going to run a test in a bit

[Baph]

Ebay has just replied confirming it is a spoof and to just delete. It's weird that it came from a real ebay email address though. They must hack in to ebay's email or something:confused: Worrying

Nope, claiming that you're coming from a fake mail address is easy. It's the kind of things that even 10 year old American kids can do.

It's supidly easy to send mails pretending to be president@whitehouse.gov for example, and I often send mails to the kids just before Christmas from santa@north-pole.org.

All you need is a mail server that supports relays, and you can run one of those yourself (though it's a little silly to do it that way as it's traceable).

[maviczap]

I've got AVG Free, Spyware Guard, Win Patrol, Spyware Blaster and vista's firewall and defender are turned on.
I'm going to run a test in a bit

:thumright: excellent. I don't understand why people don't protect themselves, when there's loads of good freeware available

[maviczap]

Nope, claiming that you're coming from a fake mail address is easy. It's the kind of things that even 10 year old American kids can do.

It's supidly easy to send mails pretending to be president@whitehouse.gov for example, and I often send mails to the kids just before Christmas from santa@north-pole.org.

All you need is a mail server that supports relays, and you can run one of those yourself (though it's a little silly to do it that way as it's traceable).

H'mm perhaps I could spoof an email telling one of my staff he's been transferred, which would make my 2009 :cheers:

Spoofed a mate telling him Taco Bell was opening in London, but just used a Hotmail account. He nearly booked his train ticket too.:mrgreen:

[Speedy Claire]

I`ve had loads of these spoof emails from ebay... I just delete them!

[Baph]

H'mm perhaps I could spoof an email telling one of my staff he's been transferred, which would make my 2009 :cheers:

Spoofed a mate telling him Taco Bell was opening in London, but just used a Hotmail account. He nearly booked his train ticket too.:mrgreen:

In an old job of mine, the mail server was setup to allow relays from inside the building, but not outside it.

Being a bit of a co*ky sod back then, I sent my then boss an email, from the director responsible for his department. My boss had recently messed up big time, and tried to cover it up, but a few of us knew of the mess (obviously given we fixed it).

The email was along the lines of "Following recent events, please come to my office immediately, where you P45 is waiting on my desk." :D

His face!! :lol: But we did tell him just as he was about to walk out of the office. He called us a few names but saw the funny side - he also didn't make a complete balls up again.

[maviczap]

Nice one :p

[maviczap]

I`ve had loads of these spoof emails from ebay... I just delete them!

Helps if you don't have a normal email address I think ie Johnsmith@hotmail wouldn't be a good one to have. The spammers have these in their sights all the time.

i get few spam emails, one or 2 a month. I put this down to my email name and AOLs spam filters. Its the same for my Googlemail address, which I use when I'm registering on a website forum. I only get the occaisional spam on this account too.

My old orange account used to get loads of spoof bank emails. So AOL & Googles spam filters must be better